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Talk Show Listings for Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Talk Show Listings for Wednesday, January 26, 2011

First-time playwright Tommy Nohilly seems intent on ramming edgy family dysfunctions in the audience's faces with Blood From A Stone.  Unfortunately there's no play underneath to support it all.  Director Scott Elliott and The New Group do a heck of a good job covering up the flaws of the text most of the time, but the nearly three hours of animosity and head-banging symbolism can't help looking very silly now and then, despite the skilled ensemble.

The Pull-Tight Players Theatre of Franklin, Tennessee, will host a talk-back following the Friday, Feb. 4 performance of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT. Patrons are invited and encouraged to stay to explore DOUBT further with director Heather Bottoms and the cast. This will substitute for the Players' traditional Prelude event Sunday, Jan. 16, which has been cancelled due to unpredictable weather.

The Flea Theater will present the World Premiere of #serials@theflea, a raucous late night play competition featuring The Bats and some of NYC's hottest young playwrights.

Opening January 21, Doubt, a Parable is the 2005 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. (You may have seen the 2009 Oscar nominated movie that was based on this play.)

On October 14, 2011, The New York Pops orchestra - famous for presenting popular music with a symphony orchestra of the highest quality - will launch its 29th season; a Carnegie Hall series celebrating the stylistic diversity of some of popular music's greatest icons.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is excited to be a part of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of afterlife: a ghost story.

The Pull-Tight Players Theatre of Franklin, Tennessee, will host a talk-back following the Friday, Feb. 4 performance of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT. Patrons are invited and encouraged to stay to explore DOUBT further with director Heather Bottoms and the cast. This will substitute for the Players' traditional Prelude event Sunday, Jan. 16, which has been cancelled due to unpredictable weather.

An unflinching and darkly comic depiction of life in blue collar Connecticut, Blood From A Stone zeroes in on a working class family wrestling to keep it together as day-to-day struggles exert their squeeze. When Travis pays a visit to his parents' home, he finds an already volatile household imploding and his close-knit but deeply conflicted family teetering on the brink.

The Flea Theater will present the World Premiere of #serials@theflea, a raucous late night play competition featuring The Bats and some of NYC's hottest young playwrights.

Opening January 21, Doubt, a Parable is the 2005 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. (You may have seen the 2009 Oscar nominated movie that was based on this play.)

The New Group announces a new official opening night date for its world premiere production of the new play Blood From A Stone by Tommy Nohilly. Directed by Scott Elliott, Blood From A Stone features Gordon Clapp, Ann Dowd, Thomas Guiry, Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne and Daphne Rubin-Vega

The New Group is presenting BLOOD FROM A STONE through February 19 at Theatre Row. The production shots have been released and BroadwayWorld brings you a first look below!

The New Group announces that BLOOD FROM A STONE will extend through February 19 (the final performance was previously slated for Feb 5.

NBC PRIMETIME SCHEDULE - Sunday January 16, 2011 - Saturday January 22, 2011

Scrooge In Rouge starring Varla Jean Merman, Ricky Graham & Yvette Hargis plays Le Chat Noir at 715 St. Charles New Orleans, LA

The New Group announces a new official opening night date for its world premiere production of the new play Blood From A Stone by Tommy Nohilly. Directed by Scott Elliott, Blood From A Stone features Gordon Clapp, Ann Dowd, Thomas Guiry, Ethan Hawke, Natasha Lyonne and Daphne Rubin-Vega

Celebrities from the worlds of film, television and music will help Universal Studios Hollywood(SM) guests celebrate the holiday season-and encourage families to read together-with nightly readings of 'Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' during the theme park's 'GrinchmasTM' celebration, from December 18 through January 2, 2011.

New York City Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Prospect Park Alliance Chairman Albert H. Garner and New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky today broke ground on Lakeside at Prospect Park.